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Latin American Middle-Class Entrepreneurs and Their Firms : A Regional View and International Comparison

Kantis, Hugo - 2012

Based on a cross-country comparison of dynamic new firms, this paper attempts to characterize Latin American middle …

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Public Debt and Social Expenditure : Friends or Foes?

Lora, Eduardo A. - 2011

This paper assesses the effects of total public debt (external and domestic) on social expenditure worldwide and in Latin America using an unbalanced panel of around 50 countries for the period 1985-2003. The most robust and important finding is that higher debt ratios do reduce social...

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Household Saving in Developing Countries - Inequality, Demographics and All that : How Different are Latin America and South East Asia?

Székely, Miguel - 2011

East Asia and Latin America have diverged in several dimensions in the past three decades. This paper compares household saving behavior in two countries in each region (Mexico, Peru, Thailand and Taiwan). We make four contributions. First, we provide the first comparisons of savings in these...

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Coping with Financial Crises : Latin American Answers to European Questions

Cavallo, Eduardo A. - 2013

Europe faces challenges reminiscent of Latin American financial crises. The failure of recent liquidity support to … normalize the situation in Europe suggests the need to refocus the policy debate on fundamentals: structural reform for growth … relevant policy lessons for Europe on those fronts except concerning the use of sharp real devaluations to spearhead recovery …

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Should State-Owned Firms Change CEOS Before Privatization? The Case of the Telecommunications Industry

Chong, Alberto - 2011

Should state-owned enterprises change chief executive officer before privatizing? We test competing views on this question by complementing a recently released database with newly collected data. We are able to cover 77 telecommunications privatizations, which account for nearly 80 percent of...

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The Political Economy of Pension Reform : Public Opinion in Latin America and the Caribbean

Machado, Fabiana V. P. - 2016

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Do the Rich Save More in Latin America?

Gandelman, Nestor - 2015

This paper follows two strategies to address whether the rich save more. First, the paper implements a two-stage procedure in which the household's lifetime income is instrumented with the education level of the household head and the education level of his/her partner. Second, using information...

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U.S. Free Trade Agreements and Enforcement of Labor Law in Latin America

Dewan, Sabina - 2015

effect of FTAs on labor inspections and exploits variation across countries using non-signers as a comparison group. The …

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Discrimination in Latin America : An Elephant in the Room?

Chong, Alberto - 2015

This paper surveys evidence on discrimination in Latin America and shows that there is a widespread perception of discrimination, especially against the poor, the uneducated and those who lack connections. The channels through which discrimination occurs may be built on the basis of economic...

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Ideas for Development in the Americas, Volume 24 : Development Connections: Icts in Latin America

Funaro, Rita L. - 2015

Information and communication technologies (ICT)--cell phones, computers, Internet--hold great promise but greater access alone cannot bring about economic development. This is a major finding of the IDB`s latest edition of its flagship Development in the Americas series titled Development...

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